Museum number:

APM 22.570

Subcollection:

wooden pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

standing Turk and two riders

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of wood with Ulm shape bowl with round bottom and rising stem ending in a light stub. Bowl front embossed a standing Turk with mustache and medium-long hair, a turban on top of which a crescent moon, the right arm raised with a crooked sword, the left hand on the belt, dressed in a red tunic, pipe bowl on both sides a horseman on horse right with shoulder-length hair, a two-sided stitch on the head and a curved saber in the raised left hand, horseman on the left a hat with feather and a revolver in the left hand, above the right figure as a weapon a shield with an oblique trajectory on which three stars, above the left figure the double-headed eagle with in its claws a scepter and a sword, bowl underneath a dragon with an outstretched tongue on which the Turk stands. Stem a curl motif on either side, from which an elongated leaf, a bridge between the stem and bowl through which the flue runs. Bowl interior covered with sheet metal. Original brass valve cover with pointed openwork valve on which a disc and button and finished with a setting in which a red cut glass stone.

Date:

Period 1790 - 1810


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight10.63 in (27 cm)
BowlHeight7.87 in (20 cm)
Width3.94 in (10 cm)
StemLength12.2 in (31 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape Ulm shape
Materialwood
Techniquecarved
Colourbrown
Other materialsbrass (metal)
Finish verf, meerkleuren
Traces of use ongebruikt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalEastern Europe
CountryHungary
Acquisition
Year 2017
Literature
Don Duco, Hoogtepunten uit het Amsterdam Pipe Museum. Amsterdam, 2020. hoofdstuk: Turkenslagen in volkse stijl. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, tentoonstelling "Aanwinsten 2017", 2 februari - 6 mei 2018.

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